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Accepted an offer from MIT's HST program (which was my top choice from the beginning lol)!

Yeah I emailed them and got the same response.

I'll be starting at MIT in the fall in the HST program! What programs will other people be doing?

@krd_BME I'll be declining BU's offer on Monday. Hopefully you're next on the waitlist!

MIT HST post-interview decisions have gone out.

@AstroMason Also admitted to MIT here - I visited last weekend and talked to current students who all emphatically discouraged me from living in Tang. Apparently, it's still pretty rundown, and is also awkwardly located so it's not as easy as it could be to get to campus. Sidney-Pacific looked pretty nice (we had a seminar in there).

@vsgajd The deadline to RSVP for their interview weekend (which is March 16th) was Feb 23rd, so I don't think they're sending out more. I'd contact their admissions people to be sure though.

Acceptance letters are beginning to go out. Got mine this morning.

Cool, I just emailed them so we'll see what's up. Thanks!

I heard from LNLL today, but I'm not entirely sure whether or not it is coming from GEM (and neither is the interviewer)? Can you just reach out to GEM to find out whether it's connected?

Aaaaaand rejected from Stanford. Oh well.

Thank you!

Also accepted to BU BME!

Got an interview at Case Western, apparently. They emailed this morning.

@raffle Ideally I'd like to work with Conformable Decoders or Biomechatronics through HST, so I am kind of waiting for a better program but not a better lab? If that makes sense.

I'm actually the one acceptance and the one interview on the results thread - I was originally contacted by Conformable Decoders (2nd) choice, interviewed, was accepted, found out that I got an interview for the MEMP program, and figured it couldn't hurt to reach out to Biomechatronics (1st) since Herr is known for preferring to take HST students for funding reasons. I would definitely say not to worry yet, even while interviewing with Conformable Decoders they recognized that they were very much ahead of the usual timeline.

@fuzzylogician The out of office response was to my second email that the PI was not cc'ed on, hence the question of whether I should do something. My main concern was that he wanted to talk before my interview on campus, which left this week and next week, and I got the impression that his schedule was busy already, but the general feedback that I'm getting is to wait it out so I'm going with that. Thanks!

I reached out to a PI at a program that I've gotten an interview for already to see if it would be possible to informally interview with him (he is part of the department but not on the list of people doing the interviews that weekend), and he replied that he'd be happy to talk to be and to make an appointment with his admin assistant, who was cc'ed. This was on Thursday, however, the admin assistant will be out of the office (got her auto-reply) from Friday until this coming Monday, and has not responded to his email on Thursday or my follow-up on Monday. Should I go back to the professor and see if we can schedule something without the admin assistant, or wait until next week? I don't want to come off as needy or annoying, but I'd also really like the chance to interview and do not want to get buried in her inbox.

@CleverDisplayName @Some violinist Good to know, thanks!

Anyone happen to know when Case Western/Stanford/Michigan are sending out decisions? Also haven't heard from BU but I'm currently assuming that's a lost cause lol.

BTW MIT HST interview emails went out a few minutes ago.

I'm looking to apply to Boston University, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Columbia, Cornell Tech (Masters), MIT, Northwestern, UCSD, Michigan, and U Toronto. I plan to reach out to the PIs that I'm interested in working with over the next month to get the ball rolling, but my GPA slipped from a 3.3 to a 3.15 during my Spring 2017 semester (overcommitted to leadership activities, attempted to pick up a CS minor, and didn't manage my time as well as I should have), so I'm wondering what my chances are based on my application as a whole. Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University, College of Engineering Major: Biomedical Engineering (Instrumentation Concentration) Minor: Computer Science (tentative) GPA: 3.15/4 Gender: Female Race: African American GRE: Have not taken it yet, scheduled for late July. Practice tests have me at around a 168/167 but I'm trying to get that up to perfect. Research Experience: Two years (as of today) working in a biomechanics research lab doing both wet lab research and extensive computational analysis and modeling of biomechanics. Will be doing research as an Amgen Scholar this summer. Interned at Novartis during Summer 2016. Publications: One Abstract from Novartis, my PI for this summer is hoping to publish something with my name on it, will likely end up with another 1-2 this fall (the grad student I work under is defending in May and hasn't published yet). Awards/Honors/Recognitions: NACME Scholarship, several diversity related awards from Cornell Engineering Extracurriculars: Co-President + Co-Founder of Cornell BMES, President of Engineering Ambassadors (tour guides and panel members for engineering admissions), President of fencing club Outreach: Teacher for 7-12 STEM outreach program, member of Alpha Phi Omega, working on a science communications outreach program to launch this fall Research Interests: Implantable Electronics, Neural Engineering, Bioelectric Materials Thanks for any thoughts! Also, if anyone has experience spinning low GPAs in the application process, I'd love to hear about what you did.

That's enough to live off of, depending on where you live. I am not familiar with the cost of living for students in Montclair (it's my hometown, so I grew up here), but I know students at Montclair State who make less money than that part-time and have not had issues affording to live in the area. You may want to consider living in a nearby town (Bloomfield, Verona, NOT Glen Ridge - super expensive) to bring living costs down further. I think there are around 3 Starbucks locations alone, as well as 6-7 other coffee shops scattered around town. Montclair is very family-oriented, so many of it's amenities cater to that. There are a lot of parks, and there are recreational sports leagues if you're interested in that. You don't need a car to live here, but it is pretty helpful. Montclair is suburban, so if you don't live near one of the town centers, you'll have to walk or bus everywhere. The buses only serve main streets for the most part, and train stations tend to be near commercial areas. You can definitely get by without a car, but you'll have to take transportation schedules into account a lot for day-to-day activities.